THE FERN BULLETIN 



Vol. XVIII JULY, 1910 No. 3 



FERN NOTES. 



By E. J. Hill. 



/. Woodwardia Virginica. 

 When looking over the Fern Flora of Pennsylvania, 

 by W. A. Poyser, in the Fern Bulletin of July, 1909, I 

 noticed that Woodwardia Virginica was said to be 

 "very local" in its distribution in the State, and that 

 all the counties named were in the eastern part of the 

 State between the Delaware and the Susquehanna riv- 

 ers. Wherever the localities may elsewhere be, I can 

 add a station from the northwestern corner of the 

 State, and will append some statements about its hab- 

 its and associates. While passing a few days last 

 summer at the village of Saegertown, excursions were 

 made in the parts contigous, chiefly in search of 

 mosses, but other aspects of the flora were by no means 

 neglected. The chain-fern was seen in one locality 

 only, but was very abundant in its restricted area. It 

 was a small swamp of white pine near the village 

 of Harmonsburg, Crawford county, a few miles west 

 of Meadville, and near the head of Conneaut Lake. A 

 day had been spent in the neighborhood with a fair de- 

 gree of success when near its close I came upon this 

 swamp. Experience had taught me that sphagnous 

 mosses nearly always grow where Woodwardia is 

 found, and I was not disappointed on entering the 

 marsh and seeing the fern to find them associated 

 there. The ground at the base of the clumps of fern, 



